Marta Rychert Chris Wilkins Vinuli Withanarachchie Massey University Dr Marta Rychert is a Senior Researcher at Massey University with expertise in drug policy, health law and public health. Associate Professor Chris Wilkins is the leader of the drug research team at SHORE & Whariki Research Centre, Massey University, and has
Chris Hipkins If you haven’t yet made plans for Super Saturday, there’s still time to get involved (even if you’ve had your two shots!) and help New Zealand get vaccinated. If you missed the news, tomorrow’s Super Saturday event is taking place right around the country
Intensive care unit occupancy rates in district health board areas with large Maori populations were at capacity even before Covid and the current Delta outbreak, says National’s Health spokesperson Dr Shane Reti. This is yet more evidence of very slim ICU margins that we have at the moment and
To a hammer, everything is a nail. To a gimlet-eyed “anti-racist”, everything is “racist”. The racism-obsessive, as Theodore Dalrymple has written, “looks at the world through race-tinted spectacles, interprets every event or social phenomenon as a manifestation of racism either implicit or explicit, and in general has the soul of
Ken Orr Spokesperson Right to Life righttolife.org.nz Right to Life defends the duty of midwives to be the protector of the lives of unborn children and their mothers. For thousands of years civilisation has upheld the duty of midwives to be the guardian of the womb and the
covidplanb.co.nz The most recent twist in the covid-19 saga is forcing hard-working New Zealanders to believe in the story of the ‘deadly virus’ and ‘saviour’ vaccine. This will inevitably mean many will now be forced to choose between their jobs and their sense of autonomy over their own
David Seymour ACT Leader The Ministry of Health couldn’t order a pizza, let alone contract saliva testing, as new revelations surface that it is still trying to work out if its contracted saliva tests are reliable. It’s time for the Government to finally get real, put the Ministry
Family First The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) have released a position statement on gender dysphoria, and in it they explicitly acknowledge that “there are polarised views and mixed evidence regarding treatment options for people presenting with gender identity concerns, especially children and young people.” The
In recent months, and within a relatively small circle of family, friends and acquaintances, I’ve heard of a range of identity issues gradually or even suddenly arising among a few quite disparate teenage girls. There seem to be some common denominators with these kids, in that they are all
rt.com The coronavirus pandemic added to the burden of depressive and anxiety disorders in over 200 countries last year, a new study shows, saying the impact of Covid-19 has increased the number of depressed people by nearly a third. While “mental disorders were leading causes of the global health-related
Lindsay Mitchell lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com Lindsay Mitchell has been researching and commenting on welfare since 2001. Many of her articles have been published in mainstream media and she has appeared on radio, tv and before select committees discussing issues relating to welfare. Lindsay is also an artist who works under
Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins denounced anti-vax GPs, but said it was up to the Medical Council to deal with them. Medical Council chairperson Doctor Curtis Walker told Morning Report on Friday […] The council had “zero tolerance for anti-vaccination messages”, he said. It’s all in the language, isn’t
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Eric Brakey fee.org Eric Brakey is the senior spokesperson for Young Americans for Liberty. As a state senator from 2014 to 2018, Brakey served as senate chairman for the Maine Health and Human Services Committee. As one-size-fits-all COVID vaccine mandates sweep government, academia, and corporate America, new data are
